It is the source of my power, my strength. It will lead to my rebirth. It's my one-way trip out of here, back to my destiny.\n\nBack to Kotaku.\n\nEnough day-dreaming. I must focus on [[my training|my training]].\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

Sender: Tricia Holsworth, Surveilance and Investigation\nSubject: FINDING SERRELS\n\nAlex,\n\nAs requested, we have picked up the trail of Mark Serrels. \nWe can confirm he is in fact STILL ALIVE.\n\n[[How do we proceed?|furrowed brows]]\n\n\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

Kotaku is different now. \n\nOnce a place that celebrated all forms of video game culture, Kotaku had switched focus. <<replace>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>50% Esports<<becomes>>50% cricket<<becomes>>ALL evil<<endreplace>>. \n\nTruly this is now the site of a man who thinks [[consoles are the playthings of children|master race]]. \n\nThis is the site of a man with more [[important things to do|email]].\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

I am perfectly at peace. I cannot be stopped or touched. I am not of this universe, I flow <i>through</i> it, in the gaps between it. There is no me, there is no video game.\n\n[[There is no controller|tap]].\n\n\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

<<replace>>I am playing a video game.<<becomes>>I am DESTROYING a video game.<<endreplace>> I am unstoppable. I cannot be beaten. I can't decide if I'm using the controller or the [[controller is using me|source3]]. \n\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

The same chair. The same villain.\nThe same king on the same throne.\n\n[[Only changed somehow. |changed]]\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

What an incredible coincidence that I stumbled across this place, with these five world-class Esports professionals. \n\nWho could have known they were guarding the mythical [[Iron Controller|source]].\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

<<replace>>A man at ease with his own villainy.<<becomes>>Dark eyes, a perennial grimace. A sense that his brain is reptillian but masks potential for pure genius. He has the reaction time of coked-up gecko. <<becomes>>[[A terrifying foe.|alex2]]<<endreplace>>\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

Once clean shaven, Alex Walker now has thick beard. His hair is long. A strange, unexplained scar runs from the tip of his hairline to his cheekbone. Right across the eyelid hiding the same dark eyes.\n\n[[Kotaku too, has changed|changes]]. \n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>

Two years... has it really been that long since I stumbled across [[this place|training]] in that unforgiving blizzard?\n<<set ga('send', 'event', 'passage', 'loaded', 'Chapter3 - ' + state.history[0].passage.title); >>